Multiculturalism Rethought

Edited by Varun Uberoi and Tariq Modood

Description

Explores contemporary multicultural dilemmas through the lens of Bhikhu Parekh's political thought

Bhikhu Parekh's work is widely regarded as amongst the most original and significant contributions to the political theory of multiculturalism. In this book, a selection of leading theorists of multiculturalism revisit aspects of Parekh's work both to underline its continuing importance and the ongoing vitality of multiculturalist theory. Some contributors locate Parekh in the tradition of British pluralism or as inspired by Gandhi; some apply his theory to a range of controversial contemporary multicultural dilemmas; and others extend it in new directions.

Multiculturalism Rethought

Edited by Varun Uberoi and Tariq Modood

Author Information

Varun Uberoi is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy at Brunel University.

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

Contributors:

Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Graduate Center, CUNY, Founder of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. He is the author of seventeen books, including the classic Strong Democracy (1984), the international best-seller Jihad vs McWorld (1995) and his most recent book is If Mayors Ruled the World (2013). He appears frequently in broadcast media and domestic and international news publications, and he consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the US and around the world.

Rajeev Bhargava is Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He has held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Columbia, Jerusalem, Bristol and Paris. He is on the advisory board of several institutions and programmes and was a consultant to the UNDP report on cultural liberty. His publications include Individualism in Social Science (1992), Secularism and its Critics (edited volume 1998), What is Political Theory and Why do We Need It? (2010) and The Promise of India's Secular Democracy (2010).

Joseph H. Carens is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He published over seventy articles, edited two books, and written The Ethics of Immigration (2014), Immigrants and the Right to Stay (2010), Culture, Citizenship and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness (2000) and Equality, Moral Incentives, and the Market: An Essay in Utopian Politico-Economic Theory (1981).

Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics and a Fellow of Queen's College, University of Cambridge. He is joint editor of The Political Quarterly and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published widely on British politics, public policy, and political economy. In 2005 he was awarded the PSA Isaiah Berlin prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies. His books include Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics (2003) and The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession (2009).

Peter Jones is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Newcastle. He is the author of Rights (1994) and editor of National Rights, International Obligations (1996), Human Rights and Global Diversity (2001) and Group Rights (2009). Most of his published work has appeared in academic journals and edited collections and ranges over a variety of subjects, including cultural diversity, toleration, recognition, freedom of belief and expression, value pluralism, political equality, distributive justice, global justice, democracy and liberalism.

Paul Kelly is Pro-director and Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. He is author, editor and co-editor of fourteen books, including Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice (1990), Liberalism (2004), Locke's Second Treatise (2007) and British Political Theory in the Twentieth Century (2010). He was joint editor of Political Studies (1999-2005) and editor of Utilitas (2006-11).

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, where he has taught since 1998. His research focuses on issues of democracy and diversity, and in particular on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), Multicultural Odysseys (2007), and Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011, co-authored with Sue Donaldson).

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol and is also the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. His latest books include Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (second edition 2013), Still Not Easy Being British (2010); and he co-edited European Multiculturalisms (2012), Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect (2013) and Religion in a Liberal State (2013). He is a regular contributor to the media and policy debates in Britain. His website is www.tariqmodood.com.

Monica Mookherjee is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Keele University, UK. Her main research interests lie in feminism, multiculturalism, human rights and the politics of recognition. Her monograph, Women's Rights asa Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy (2009), explores the tensions between feminism and multiculturalism in contemporary political theory. She edited the volume Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation (2010). She has also written journal articles for Res Publica, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and Feminist Theory.

Thomas Pantham, born in Kerala, is a former Professor of Political Science at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. He has been recipient of a Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Visitor's Nominee for social sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and visiting scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, and Princeton University. His publications include Political Theories and Social Reconstruction: A Critical Survey of the Literature on India (1995), and Political Ideas in Modern India: Thematic Explorations (co-editor with V.R. Mehta, 2006).

Raymond Plant is Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London, and Professor in the same field in the University of Tallinn. He is also a Professor of Humanities at Winchester University and Gresham Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in the City of London. He is the author of eight books in these fields, the most recent being The Neoliberal State (2010). In 2008 he was Vincent Wright Professor at Sciences Po and he has frequently taught there since. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 1992.

Charles Taylor is professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University. His writings include include Hegel (1975); Hegel and Modern Society (1979); Social Theory as Practice (1983); Human Agency and Language (1985); Philosophy and the Human Sciences (1985); Source of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989); The Malaise of Modernity (1991, based on the Massey Lectures for the CBC held in 1991); Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism (1993); Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, (1994); Philosophical Arguments (1995); A Secular Age (2007).

Varun Uberoi is Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy at Brunel University. His research has been published in Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Political Quarterly and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. He co-edited Options for a New Britain (2009) and Options for Britain II (2010). His next monograph, Nation-Building Through Multiculturalism, will be published in 2015.